Aka First Blood Part 2. Technically that’s the other way around
After the events of the first film, John Rambo (Sly Stallone) is in prison. His old commander offers him a way out by performing a simple recon mission in Vietnam to see if there are still POWs in an old camp. When Rambo gets there he finds some, but is double crossed as he wasn’t meant too. Which makes him angry, and you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.
The first Rambo movie isn’t really an action movie. Yes it has action, but Rambo never actually kills anyway. That last line in the synopsis is pretty accurate for that film. He has PTSD and when they poke the bear he loses his shit, but only to the point of wanting to be left alone. THIS is a big dumb 80’s action movie.
Actually dumb isn’t fair, its relatively smart at times with Rambo using actual tactics to kill people and not just standing there with a mini gun mowing guys down and yelling one liners.
Though he does stand there with a mini gun a few times, he just doesn’t do the one liners.
As a big dumb 80’s action movie, this is by far one of the better ones. It has a couple of weaknesses though. All the “we want to be appreciated” stuff that Rambo spews is very heavy handed and I would think offensive to actual vets seeing as Stallone never went near nam during the war and isn’t a vet himself. That and the fact that his sort of love interest and local contact speaks in broken English but with a very good accent. They should have just given her normal bloody dialogue instead of doing that.
The dialogue issues aside, I enjoyed the hell out of this. Rambo blowing up a shit load of Viet Con and Ruskies? Brilliant. It was a simpler time when we knew who our enemies were. And the double crossing from his own side was pretty ballsy back then.
Btw if you know anything about 80’s films and don’t see the double cross coming your not paying attention. The helicopter pilot is the Sensei from Cobra Kai for fuck sake!
If you like big dumb action movies you’ll love this. Of course you’ll have already seen it and know that by now, it’s pretty old
Next up: Loch Ness Terror
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